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It’s A Sin
AIDS in 80s UK
3 episodes in
Very good
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@MiketheSnow said in TV Serieseseses:
It’s A Sin
AIDS in 80s UK
3 episodes in
Very good
C4 UKFor Oz based, it's on Stan.
I haven't watched it yet but will add it to my list.
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@MiketheSnow said in TV Serieseseses:
It’s A Sin
AIDS in 80s UK
3 episodes in
Very good
C4 UKHard to watch at times. A good reminder of how far we've come though. It's hard to comprehend that legal discrimination only ended in 2003.
Olly Alexander is a very talented man.
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I teed up Stan again, to get the rugby when it kicks off in a couple of weeks. I'd had it previously for Preacher (great series) and so a couple of things in My List were still there.
Electric Dreams
A series of 10 episodes based on Philip K Dick's SciFi short stories - no links between each ep so can be consumed in bite sized chunks.
Some really good stuff in there and varied cast of high quality IMHO (Steve Buscemi, Bryan Cranston, Anna Paquin, Essie Davis etc).
A bit of nudity (including sideboob from Paquin as she's grinding one out with a hot redhead) but mostly it is about the interesting storylines.
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i never watched True Blood
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@mariner4life ….ive watched snippets ….
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@Kiwiwomble said in TV Serieseseses:
@mariner4life ….ive watched snippets ….
I believe those are called fappets
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Well, from some historic posts, I suspect this is going to be an unpopular take, but...
From those same historic posts, I decided to give Father Ted another shot - never really having watched it in full previously.
And fuck, it was a struggle. I actually felt relief at the end, that it was done, over, and I could delete the whole thing.
I get why people would like it, and I did genuinely laugh or scoff out loud a small handful of times.
But in general - the same old British sitcom putting the lie to the so-claimed "dry" British humour. -
@Kruse said in TV Serieseseses:
Well, from some historic posts, I suspect this is going to be an unpopular take, but...
From those same historic posts, I decided to give Father Ted another shot - never really having watched it in full previously.
And fuck, it was a struggle. I actually felt relief at the end, that it was done, over, and I could delete the whole thing.
I get why people would like it, and I did genuinely laugh or scoff out loud a small handful of times.
But in general - the same old British sitcom putting the lie to the so-claimed "dry" British humour.They had started to lose it by the time they wrote Father Ted, but Graham Linehan and Arthur Mathews did write the funniest sketch ever for Smith and Jones:
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@Kruse said in TV Serieseseses:
Well, from some historic posts, I suspect this is going to be an unpopular take, but...
From those same historic posts, I decided to give Father Ted another shot - never really having watched it in full previously.
And fuck, it was a struggle. I actually felt relief at the end, that it was done, over, and I could delete the whole thing.
I get why people would like it, and I did genuinely laugh or scoff out loud a small handful of times.
But in general - the same old British sitcom putting the lie to the so-claimed "dry" British humour.I thought the best bits were enough for one funny season.
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@antipodean said in TV Serieseseses:
@Kruse said in TV Serieseseses:
Well, from some historic posts, I suspect this is going to be an unpopular take, but...
From those same historic posts, I decided to give Father Ted another shot - never really having watched it in full previously.
And fuck, it was a struggle. I actually felt relief at the end, that it was done, over, and I could delete the whole thing.
I get why people would like it, and I did genuinely laugh or scoff out loud a small handful of times.
But in general - the same old British sitcom putting the lie to the so-claimed "dry" British humour.I thought the best bits were enough for one funny season.
Yeah, I'd agree with that.
At least they did give up after 3. Most Brit shows are good like that, they realise after about 3 seasons that that's about it... they're just repeating the same gags, and there's not much more to wring out of them.
Fawlty Towers - widely regarded a stone-cold classic... just the 2 seasons. And... the right choice.
Last of the Summer Wine - certainly an exception... a shit-ton of seasons, but... even if it is largely the same gags over-and-over... it's somehow acceptable. But then, I've never watched more than an episode or two when visiting family... certainly not something I'd binge. -
@Kruse How about IT crowd, now I cry, literally cry laughing at that show, it's a Graham Linehan show, and excellent in my opinion.
I am a Father Ted fan though..
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@R-L said in TV Serieseseses:
@Kruse How about IT crowd, now I cry, literally cry laughing at that show, it's a Graham Linehan show, and excellent in my opinion.
I am a Father Ted fan though..
I nearly made a comment in my Father Ted review, you could pretty much swap out the priests for IT nerds, and get basically the same sit-com. (Along with SO many Brit sit-coms... the same premise in each... a bunch of inepts, creating absurd situations where they're typically their own worst enemy, and it always comes full circle in the end)
Except... I found the IT Crowd a bit more amusing... perhaps because it's got less of the slapstick, and bit more of the Matt Berry absurdism (but not too much... usually), and... I dunno. When it delved into "laugh at him, he's a nerd", I found it as trying as the "laugh at him, he's always drunk" and the "laugh at him, he's sooo stupid" of Father Ted.I also watched the entirety of IT Crowd fairly recently... within the last couple of months... and as I say - mostly enjoyed it.
Also noticed, however, how much of it would be... problematic... by current PC 'norms'.
"Ha - look, people think he's gay, when he's actually not", "Ha - he's a man wearing lipstick", and the episode which would certainly get the militant-Trans community out with pitchforks - "Ha, he's rooting that woman but she actually used to be a man, and he doesn't realise. And ha - when he does realise, he loses his shit"
